Hi people. I'm having some trouble with writing a threaded script. I'm trying to write a worker/workerPool program where there is a set amount of worker threads (say 100) working on a similar sort of task, as soon as one finishes, another is launched to maintain 100 simultaneous worker threads. The following snippet works really well... until it's launched around 1060 threads, at which point it gets stuck in the outer while loop. Check out the code, i'm fairly new to threads so i could be doing something drastically wrong. If so, could you please point me in the right direction for implementing the above funcionality. Thanks in advance! Main loop handling workers: 
my @running_threads = ();
while ($finished eq "false") {
    @running_threads = threads->list;
    if (scalar(@running_threads) < $worker_num) {
        print "launching thread with count:$count\n";
            
        $somedata = getData();
        if ($somedata ne "") {
            threads->new(\&worker, $somedata);
        } else {
            $finished = "true";
        }
    }
}

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And this is the code for the worker: 
sub worker {
    # do whatever
    eval((threads->self)->join);
}

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